Friday, September 29, 2017

Gloucester Board of Supervisors Increasing County Administrator’s and Attorney’s Pay and Benefits on the Sly

On Tuesday
night October 3rd, the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors will
vote on a resolution to increase County Administrator, Brent Fedors’ and County
Attorney, Ted Wilmot’s pay and benefits, effective July 1, 2017. That’s right
last July. Unfortunately, the vote will be held with no public discussion
because the matters are contained in the meeting’s consent agenda. For those
who do not know; a consent agenda is basically a list of public matters and
supporting documents that are voted on collectively, with no public discussion.
We can’t help but wonder if the County Administrator didn’t hide money in this
year’s budget to cover his and the County Attorney’s pay increase.

There are
other significant increases in paid time off, bonus paid days off, increases in
the amount of accrued paid time off, increases in the amount of accrued paid
time off that can be cashed in at the time of separation from employment with
the County and increases in the amount of healthcare expense payouts by the
county. Wonder how our blue-collar county employees will feel when they become
aware of this nonsense?

We have
provided the resolution documents in the Slideshare presentations below. We encourage
everyone to review the increases and let the Board of Supervisors know this is completely
unacceptable on many levels. Tell them the County Administrator and the County
Attorney need to use their paid vacation time or lose it.